The Complete Animals (1990)

About this title: The title is a bit of a misnomer; this double CD does include the complete sessions that the Animals recorded with producer Mickie Most in 1964 and 1965. The 40 songs capture the band at their peak, including most of their best and biggest hits: "House of the Rising Sun," "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," "Bring It on Home to Me," "We Gotta Get Out of This Place," "I'm Crying," "It's My Life," and "Boom Boom." Most of the rest of the tunes don't match the excellence of these smashes, though they're solid. The great majority of them are covers of vintage R&B/rock tunes by Chuck Berry, Fats ... read more

Tracks:

1. Boom Boom [Hooker]
2. Talkin' 'Bout You [Charles]
3. Blue Feeling [Henshaw]
4. Dimples [Bracken/Hooker]
5. Baby Let Me Take You Home [Farrell/Russell]
6. Gonna Send You Back to Walker [Matthews]
7. Baby What's Wrong [Reed]
8. The House of the Rising Sun [Price/Traditional]
9. F-E-E-L [Unknown]
10. I'm Mad Again [Hooker]
11. Night Time Is the Right Time [Herman]
12. Around and Around [Berry]
13. I'm in Love Again [Bartholomew/Domino]
14. Bury My Body [Kooper/Price]
15. She Said Yeah [Christy/Jackson]
16. I'm Crying [Price/Burdon]
17. Take It Easy [Price/Burdon]
18. The Story of Bo Diddley [Burdon/McDaniel]
19. The Girl Can't Help It [Troup]
20. I've Been Around [Domino]
21. Memphis Tennessee [Berry]
22. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood [Benjamin/Marcus/Cal]
23. Club A Go-Go [Burdon/Price]
24. Roadrunner [Diddley]
25. Hallelujah, I Love Her So [Charles]
26. Don't Want Much [Gordon]
27. I Believe to My Soul [Charles/Learner]
28. Let the Good Times Roll [Goodman/Lee]
29. Mess Around [Ertegun]
30. How You've Changed [Berry]
31. I Ain't Got You [Carter]
32. Roberta [Smith/Vincent]
33. Bright Lights, Big City [Reed]
34. Worried Life Blues [Merriweather]
35. Bring It on Home to Me [Cooke]
36. For Miss Caulker [Burdon]
37. I Can't Believe It [Burdon]
38. We Gotta Get Out of This Place [Mann/Weil]
39. It's My Life [Atkins/Derrico]
40. I'm Gonna Change the World [Burdon]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.